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Deep Learning with Theano

By : Christopher Bourez
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Deep Learning with Theano

By: Christopher Bourez

Overview of this book

This book offers a complete overview of Deep Learning with Theano, a Python-based library that makes optimizing numerical expressions and deep learning models easy on CPU or GPU. The book provides some practical code examples that help the beginner understand how easy it is to build complex neural networks, while more experimented data scientists will appreciate the reach of the book, addressing supervised and unsupervised learning, generative models, reinforcement learning in the fields of image recognition, natural language processing, or game strategy. The book also discusses image recognition tasks that range from simple digit recognition, image classification, object localization, image segmentation, to image captioning. Natural language processing examples include text generation, chatbots, machine translation, and question answering. The last example deals with generating random data that looks real and solving games such as in the Open-AI gym. At the end, this book sums up the best -performing nets for each task. While early research results were based on deep stacks of neural layers, in particular, convolutional layers, the book presents the principles that improved the efficiency of these architectures, in order to help the reader build new custom nets.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Deep Learning with Theano
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Generating Text with a Recurrent Neural Net

In the previous chapter, you learned how to represent a discrete input into a vector so that neural nets have the power to understand discrete inputs as well as continuous ones.

Many real-world applications involve variable-length inputs, such as connected objects and automation (sort of Kalman filters, much more evolved); natural language processing (understanding, translation, text generation, and image annotation); human behavior reproduction (text handwriting generation and chat bots); and reinforcement learning.

Previous networks, named feedforward networks, are able to classify inputs of fixed dimensions only. To extend their power to variable-length inputs, a new category of networks has been designed: the recurrent neural networks (RNN) that are well suited for machine learning tasks on variable-length inputs or sequences.

Three well-known recurrent neural nets (simple RNN, GRU, and LSTM) are presented for the example of text generation...